Even so, the inevitability of the creation a hierarchy makes it more powerful a dictatorship when you consider the lack of economic choice, where every material thing is controlled by one entity. It's a lot easier for human nature to create a dictatorship when everything but the dictator is already in place and people have no other economic sources to choose from. So Microsoft would be less like ideological communism, and more like its real-world application. If other Companies must be compared, Apple would be more like a theocracy, with subjects held united by a common loyalty. The open source community would be sort of an anarchy, without a central anything but a bunch of nodes forming loose networks with each other. Sun would be like Luxemburg or something. # David Huerta -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bryce C Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 6:37 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Synching with a palm a free way True and I'm not against communism when it's done right. That is 1, no single person greater than anyone else and 2, the people are happy. Communism with a dictator isn't really communism, it's a dictatorship. On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 18:05, Derek Neighbors wrote: > Bryce C said: > > If anything is communist, it's M$. While not a state, they're an entity, > > a corporation that [tries to] keep control of its software by using only > > its products. > > To go on a political tagent. Communism has nothing to do with > dictatorship, we just like to relate the two, because that is the only way > we have seen 'communism' in action. > > True communism is a system characterized by the collective ownership of > property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all > members. Under this definition Microsoft hardly fits the definition. > > Microsoft is truly totalitarian in that impose a form of life in which > they exercise absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, > and individual is subordinated to them, any opposing expression is > suppressed. > > -Derek > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Bryce C CoBryce Communications